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# CCIA-backed study says DMA drained European startup funding, not a Kill Zone
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-03-18-ccia-dma-startup-funding-study/
- Published: 2026-03-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T13:55:31.000Z
- Description: A CCIA Research Center study of 2,276 European venture-backed firms found no rise in EU IPOs since the Digital Markets Act and a 37 percent fall in venture funding from 2022 to 2024, leading chief economist Trevor Wagener to call the "Kill Zone" rationale a myth.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #reported, #opinion, #ai-drafted

Reported Opinion AI-drafted [CCIA Europe press release, 18 March 2026](https://ccianet.org/news/2026/03/study-finds-europes-digital-regulation-targeting-the-u-s-didnt-help-europe-gain-more-startups-or-ipos/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that the DMA caused the funding fall; it is CCIA's own correlation-based study.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. law: industry-funded study argues DMA enforcement dried up EU startup funding. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)